PRO-LIFE COFFEE MORNING – THIS SUNDAY! There will be a Pro-Life Coffee Morning this Sunda following the 8.30 am Mass. Come and enjoy a morning of tea, coffee and cakes with the opportunity to find out more about the life changing work of March for Life UK. Cake donations welcome!
However due to failed MOTs and other unforeseen circumstances – the families on the coffee rota can’t make it this week! Can anyone help?
RCA JOBS
There are part time teaching opportunities at Regina Caeli Bedford from September – see here for more details, please do spread the word!
TRADFEST IN KENT! Social weekend 9th—10th July in the beautiful Kent countryside for young Catholics aged 18—26 organised by Greg Grimer. Inexpensive and fun! Includes Sunday Latin Mass with Fr Gabriel Diaz. Please see Instagram link https://www.instagram.com/greggrimer/.
Would you like to walk among 15,000 pilgrims to a great medieval Marian shrine in France? Including French and foreign pilgrims, and about 150 young consecrated men and women, seminarians, friars, priests, monks and nuns walking with full-length habit the 70 miles between Paris and Chartres?
The annual Pilgrimage of Christendom from Paris to Chartres is the largest yearly gathering of Catholics worshipping according to the traditional liturgy. This year, Sat 4 to Mon 6 June 2022.
Click on picture to hear why this young pilgrim invites you to join [make sure to activate automatic English subtitles]:
Providentially, after 2 years of interruption due to Covid, the dates this year (4-6 June) coincides with the UK Jubilee Bank Holiday, allowing many more Brits than usual to take part. Currently the Covid travel regulations are nearly disappeared (with just one single negative PCR test result taken within 72 hours or an antigen test result taken within 48 hours pre-departure, and no further test either in France or back in England; nor any quarantine).
Arrival in Paris by Friday night 3rd June, for departure from Paris early morning on Saturday 4th June. Walk 70 miles. Only carry the light items you need for the day, while heavy stuff remains in your suitcase loaded on Pilgrimage trucks. Pilgrims communal tents and troughs available and breakfasts. Bring your own lunches and suppers. Arrival in Chartres on Monday afternoon 6th June, with pontifical high Mass in the cathedral.
All liturgies in the traditional form.
Contact TODAY Michael to book with the English Chapter: m.hall@talk21.com. There is also an Irish Chapter.
Michael will assist you with travel and accommodation arrangements.
Michael is registered with the organisers as the Head of the English Chapter. They require participants details of as soon as possible and there is a DISCOUNT if we can submit registrations by 15 May.
Michael has found reasonably priced accommodation for at least 12 in Paris the Friday night and in Chartres for the Monday, but ideally he will need an idea of numbers next week before confirming the booking.
MASS INTENTIONS Sunday 1st May : 8.30 am Johanna O’Brien RIP, 12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm
PRO-LIFE COFFEE MORNING There will be a Pro-Life Coffee Morning on Sunday 8th May following the 8.30 am Mass. Cake donations welcome! Come and enjoy a morning of tea, coffee and cakes with the opportunity to find out more about the life changing work of March for Life UK.
COFFEE ROTA We now have a good number of people who are willing to make the tea and coffee on a regular basis—thank you! It is currently working out about one turn per month. There’s always room for more. It would also be helpful to have a list of those who would prefer not to commit each month, but who could stand in occasionally, perhaps at short notice (there’s a vacancy next Sunday!) Please contact Barbara on mbky3 AT outlook.com.
TRADFEST IN KENT! Social weekend 9th—10th July in the beautiful Kent countryside for young Catholics aged 18—26 organised by Greg Grimer. Inexpensive and fun! Includes Sunday Latin Mass. Please see Instagram link https://www.instagram.com/greggrimer/.
Next Sunday, 1st May, we celebrate the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the 8.30 am Mass will be sung. There will be a choir practice in church on Saturday afternoon from 3 pm—5pm. New singers always welcome!
SUMMER CAMPS St Peter Summer Camp for Boys runs 1st—6th August, St Petronilla Summer Camp for Girls runs 8th—13th August, both at Bollington in the Peak District. Age range 10—17. Please contact Fr Phipps (sphipps AT fssp.org) if you are interested—places are going fast!
ST. ANTHONY’S COMMUNICATIONS
There will be brochures for this Catholic Apostolate after the 8:30am Mass for people to take a look at. They have had a rough time over the last two years so please consider supporting them, they have a fantastic offering.
STANDING ORDERS The FSSP is reliant on regular supplementary financial giving in order to maintain their apostolate in Bedford. Please consider setting up a standing order to them. These need to be set up by you through your own bank using the following details: account name: FSSP England (Reading); sort code 30-93-04; account number 02027330. Gift Aid forms are also available by request. Thank you!
On this Maundy Thursday when we celebrate the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, we are delighted to announce that this book is now available again in a brand new edition by Sophia Institute Press.
Tip: Safe and easy purchase from the publisher’s website is much more advantageous to the Catholic publisher and author (than on Amazon who retains nearly every profit and pays publisher and author a tiny fraction).
Or see discounts below.
Belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist has declined drastically over the past fifty years. For the love of the Lord and the good of souls, how can we help reverse this trend?
Whether you are a believer or struggling, this book will help you develop a personal relationship with Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament. In these pages, Fr. Armand de Malleray looks afresh at traditional Church teaching on the Holy Eucharist. He demonstrates that it is implemented with precision, strength, and beauty in the time-tested Traditional Latin Mass missal.
In his engaging and accessible style, Fr. de Malleray explains the significance of each precious detail of the traditional Eucharistic liturgy, from the opening words of the Preparatory Prayers, “Judge me, O God,” to the importance of punctuating the words of Consecration, to the meaning of the celebrant’s genuflections before and after the elevation.
Fr. de Malleray explains essential doctrines such as transubstantiation, the concomitant presence of Christ’s Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, and the nature of the Eucharistic fragments. He also describes in moving detail Our Lady’s role in drawing us closer to her Eucharistic Son.
Replete with real-life stories, modern-day references, and cultural and historical reflections, Ego Eimi will inspire you to worship the Real Presence as an ardent believer, orient you to the invisible realities occurring, and foster a greater love for our Eucharistic Lord in your heart. You will learn to treasure the Holy Eucharist more deeply through Scripture, Church teachings, and philosophical reasoning. Experience the Eucharistic Fire: embrace the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and adore God’s gratuitous love.
Guided by the Church in which our Eucharistic Savior dwells, you will also learn how belief in the Real Presence:
Surpasses other forms of God’s presence
Is the central mystery and core tenet of our Faith
Manifests God’s divine mercy as reflected in the prayers of the traditional Mass
Trains us in contrition and prepares us for a favorable eternal judgment
Deepens our love so that each time we worship will feel like our first, last, and only Mass
CONSIDER BULK DISCOUNT ORDERS:
15 to 30 copies: 40% off ($10.77 each)
31 to 40 copies: 45% off ($9.87 each)
Ordered by the case (44 per case): 50% off ($8.98 each).
Shipping for all bulk discounts is at cost, which is roughly $18-30 per case depending on where it’s being shipped.
For example, a box of 44 copies including shipping to the UK amounts to just £9.55 per copy.
MASS INTENTIONS Sunday 3rd April 8.30 am Katarzyna Onisk RIP 12.30 pm Private intention Sunday 10th April 8.30 am Sheila Yowell RIP 12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm. There will be two FSSP priests hearing Confessions on 9th April, but no Confessions on Holy Saturday.
EASTER COLLECTIONS By Fr Nicholas’s kind agreement, the collection money from the Latin Masses at 8.30 am and 12.30 pm on Easter Sunday will go to support the work of the FSSP Bedford Apostolate. If you want to make a personal gift to the FSSP priests, then please do so outside of the collections, making it clear that it is for their personal use. Thank you!
STANDING ORDERS The FSSP is reliant on regular supplementary financial giving in order to maintain their apostolate in Bedford. Please consider setting up a standing order to them. These need to be set up by you through your own bank using the following details: account name: FSSP England (Reading); sort code 30-93- 04; account number 02027330. Gift Aid forms are also available by request. Thank you.
ST ANTHONY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE Saturday 4th June 9.45 am—5 pm, St Mary’s Church, West Croydon. Speakers include Rev Marcus Holden. More information and required advance booking on www.saintant.com.
ACCESS TO THE SACRAMENTS If there is the need for sacraments — baptism, confirmation, sick calls etc — please contact Fr Goddard on 0118 966 5284 or goddard AT fssp.org.
Looking back at three crises in Church history can help us overcome the current one: 1) The Arian crisis, when many bishops said Christ is not God; 2) The Clergy immorality crisis, when St Peter Damian had to tell the pope about widespread homosexuality; 3) The Rival Popes crisis, when good Catholics were made to choose between two or even three popes at a time.
Talk given by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP for Juventutem London at St Mary Magdalene, Wandsworth, on 12th February 2022.
